7月25日至31日
最近,一个周末类型的人问我,关于我们最喜欢的参观地点。正如任何全日制跑步者都知道的那样,这既是我们被问到的最常见问题,也是最难回答的问题。我的意思是,当有这么多地方的地方时,我们如何才能选择收藏夹?
我开始浪费我通常的收藏夹清单 - 犹他州南部,俄勒冈海岸,新墨西哥州,Crested Butte,Colorado,Acadia National Park - 您知道,所有这些地方每个人否则也喜欢。随着谈话的继续,我在北喀斯喀特国家公园(North Cascades National Park)添加了Cascade Mountain山脉,这使我想起了今年夏天在我们访问期间,我对Rainier Mt. NP的努力造成了多大的努力。我不确定PNW中有这么多地点的原因是否是因为我们最近在这里度过了很多时间,或者因为它们确实是我们的最爱。
The more I thought about it, the more I think the latter might be true. There’s no doubt that the Oregon coast is the best coastline anywhere in the country, and theNorth Cascades雷尼尔山(Mt. Rainier)是美国大陆的最后一些地方,看到冰川,更不用说令人眼前一亮的火山山,所以当然,他们成为了我们的最爱清单。所有这些都是说,虽然我总是犹豫选择收藏夹(我保留改变主意的权利!),但雷尼尔国家公园目前处于我的最爱列表中。
我们在野花季节中间的7月底参观了公园。夏末的炎热在较低的海拔高度上嘶嘶作响,但在山上高高,这是在为期一周的度假探险中尽可能多地远足和探索公园的理想天气。
Where We Stayed
Even though this was a vacation week, we still needed to be connected, which limited our campground options quite a bit. There are some fantastic sounding National Forest campgrounds in the area, but no reported cell service at any of them. Same with the campground inside the park. So we branched out to look at private parks within a reasonable driving distance.
我们的重点是沿RT的公园南侧。12.我首先尝试了Packwood RV公园,据报道,该公园在质朴的一面有点,但是有良好的牢房覆盖范围,并且步行即可到达当地啤酒厂。他们没有可用性,但建议我尝试沿着几英里的喀斯喀特峰家庭露营地。我很犹豫,因为名字中的“家庭”一词使我想到了KOA或Jellystone Type Campground,这不是我们一直在寻找的经验。但是,除了其他选择之外,我给他们打了电话,发现他们有600个站点,除非您绝对需要留在完整的连接部分,否则不需要预订。
经过一个非常繁忙的夏天,很难相信我们可以在任何地方出现而没有预订并找到一个开放地点,所以我在前一周打电话,并再次被告知要刚进来。我们在周日出现,付费一周,给了露营地的地图,并告诉我们自己一个地方。完整的连接区域是公园前部的狭窄地点的网格,大部分充满了RV,看起来它们正在变成泥土中的永久固定装置。值得庆幸的是,我们能够跳过该部分,而有利于更私密和间隔的部分连接站点。
We drove非常在极端尘土飞扬的道路上慢慢慢慢,直到我们在公园的远边缘附近找到了一个被茂密的树叶包围的地点。通过将卡车侧向停放拖车前,我们能够创建一个小的私人室外区域,并将一些灰尘从窗户中漂移到我们的窗户中。在本周的大部分时间里,我们没有任何邻居,即使在周末,露营地也从来没有超过三分之一。露营地本身是古老的,建筑物正在失修(最接近我们的浴室里有一个登机的淋浴,让人联想到您在恐怖电影中看到的东西),而景点和道路迫切需要砾石来削减灰尘。但是工作人员很友好,价格远不止是合理的,并且牢固的服务迅速。另外,位置原来是完美的。
这条路只有短短的10分钟车程,就把我们带到了帕克伍德(Packwood)的小型山区小镇,在那里我们发现了许多餐厅,包括我们两次访问过的啤酒厂,一家小型杂货店和冰淇淋式气流!
Continuing past Packwood and onto WA 123, both the Stevens Canyon and White River park entrance stations were easily accessible. Overall, it was a little more than an hour-long drive to reach both the Paradise and Sunrise areas of the park from our campground. Since it was a vacation week, we didn’t mind the drive. In fact, the drive was very scenic with some great mountain views!
在雷尼尔山周围远足
雷尼尔国家公园山的边界在山上形成一个大圆圈,有四个入口站,可通往公园的不同地区。我们只进入了两个领域 - 天堂和日出 - 因为我们不想花比以前更多的时间开车。另外,这是一个假期周,这意味着,在我们的首要任务时,我们也想要一些停机时间,因此在这次访问期间并没有推动自己去看整个公园。
For our first hike, we picked what we thought would be the most crowded trail, thinking that Monday morning would be the least busy time to hike it. Wrong! By the time we wound our way up the park road to the Paradise parking lot, it was nearly full with cars already starting to line the road. I guess we weren’t the only ones to decide that Monday morning is a fine time for hiking.
不过,这并不重要,因为一旦我们踏上小径,我们就对周围风景感到敬畏,以至于所有其他徒步旅行者都融化了。我们选择5.5英里的天际线步道,因为它承诺会遇到近距离冰川的相遇和欣赏景色。我们得到了所有这些!
We enjoyed this trail so much that before the hike was even over we had already decided to come back and hike it again at a later time of day. A few days later, we made the drive again, arriving at the parking lot around 4 pm. This time it was only half full with many cars on the way out. We passed lots of hikers coming down the first section of the trail but only a few others going in the same direction as us.
我不确定这是一天中的时间,还是小径越来越不那么拥挤的事实,但是这次我们有两次独立的野生动植物遇到。首先是一对山山羊,他们闲逛了,其次是小径旁边的一条摩托车,似乎根本不关心我们的存在。
我们误算了太阳的角度,在看到日落的大部分时间之前,它在山上滑倒,但是冰川和花朵上的夜晚却比弥补了它。
即使在Panorama Point快速停下来吃晚餐三明治,我们在天黑之前差点回到停车场。只有一英里的最后10英里才需要手电筒,到那时我们回到了铺好的小径上,所以这很容易。我们真的很喜欢夏天的徒步旅行!
Our times two Skyline Trail hikes ended up being the only ones we did in the Paradise area. We considered several trails near Reflection Lake and around some popular waterfalls, but all the recent reviews reported hoards of mosquitos and biting flys which sounded less than fun. So we decided to skip them this time around. Instead, we drove over to the Sunrise area of the park for a long hike that combined several trails into one big, amazing loop.
Our research on the Sunrise area of the park led us to several popular trails. Not wanting to pick just one (and not wanting to drive the one hour and 20 minutes it took us to get over there again) we decided to arrive early and combine a few trails into an epic loop. While I wouldn’t recommend the loop we hiked to anyone else since a section ended up being accidentally off-trail and very steep, I will say that there are several shorter trails over there that you could easily combine for a full-day experience.
We started with the trail to the Mt. Fremont Lookout. One of the four historic fire lookouts in the park, this is a family-friendly hike (although the mom we saw carrying three backpacks while her kids dragged themselves along behind her might argue this point) that follows a wide trail along Sourdough Ridge, past Frozen Lake, and across an exposed rocky section. We reached the tower and took in the views before turning around and heading back the way we came.
Back at Frozen Lake, we turned right and traversed down and then back up a large meadow area to the start of the Skyscraper trail. A short but very steep trek to the top offered us some great views to the north and west.
At the bottom of the Skyscraper, we followed a faint trail south hoping that it would eventually lead us to the Burroughs Mountain trail. Even though the trail was listed on the Alltrails app, it soon became obvious that this was not an official trail. We followed the barely marked path down a field of boulders and then slogged our way up a very steep slope, stopping to enjoy a snow patch on the way. Finally, we joined up with the Burroughs trail and took a much-deserved rest.
为了完成循环,我们跳上了日出山脊小径,将其一直带回了停车场。
在休假一天以休息了我们的脚和腿之后,本周的最后一次徒步旅行是一段漫长而愉快的漫步,穿过东区小径上的树林。这条小径穿过Ohanapecosh河,通向一个流行的地区,称为“族长格罗夫”。格罗夫(Grove)到处都是巨大的旧树木,是有小孩的家庭的热门地点,因为它距离停车场仅几乎几乎几乎可以步行。在这个炎热的天气里,小径和河流充满了孩子和父母。我们不愿意迎接人群,而是跳过了树木,而是在Eastside小径上继续经过几个小瀑布,直到我们到达令人印象深刻的Ohanapecosh瀑布,这是一个很好的转折点。由于我们错过了看到公园中其他大多数著名的瀑布,因此这是一种不存在大批人群的好方法。
我们在回家的路上停在啤酒厂,那里有一些当之无愧的啤酒和汉堡,附近的一个名为Cliff Droppers的地方。这是一个完美的一周的完美结局!
3条评论
草地上的野花看起来很棒。他们将在没有目的地的情况下度过美好的一天徒步旅行。
我很高兴您能够获得山区修复!看来您选择了在野花和明亮的蓝天中到达那里的最佳时间。您的照片令人惊叹。除了通往look望台的小径 - 看起来很恐怖!如此漂亮的瀑布。我必须同意,有了所有惊人的选择,PNW拥有我们一些非常喜欢的人。
多么美丽的地方可以参观!非常感谢您继续分享您的冒险!